THE MOROCCAN SQUABBLE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 88, 27 November 1911, Page 5

THE MOROCCAN SQUABBLE

ARTICLES OF 1901 AGREEMENT PUBLISHED. PLAN FOR PARTITION. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (.United Press Association.) London, November 25. Secret articles attached to the Declaration of 1904 have been published simultaneously in London and Paris. The articles dcline the territory idlotted to Spain in the event of the breaking-up of the Moroccan Empire. The article ensures that whatever other changes occur the three articles of the declaration providing for equal treatment of cables, neutrality of the Suez Canal, and free passage through the Straits of Gibraltar shall remain unaltered.

The assignment to Spain of the coast line of Melilla as far as, but not including, the heights on the right bank of tiie Sebu will be dependent upon her adhesion to the first and third articles just mentioned, and a promise not to alienate any districts under her charge. The secret treaty also shows that England and Franco had agreed not to alter the political status of Egypt and Morocco, but if circumstances compelled any change, the freedom of the Suez Canal and of the Straits of Gibraltar remain intact.

France agreed not to ask for a time limit in regard to the occupation of Egypt, while Britain recognised Franco’s special position in Morocco. Mr. Lloyd-George, speaking at Bath, hoped the public would not accept incomplete statements regarding Morocco until they heard the facts from Sir E. Grey. THE CONDITIONS ACCEPTED BY M. DELCASSE. WHY HE DID SO. Paris, November 25. “Lo Matin” states that M. Dolcasso in 1904 accepted,the conditions placed on the entente by Britain, because he know Mr. J. Chamberlain conceived the plan to divide Morocco between Britain, Germany, and Spain. BRITISH NOTE OF ASSENT TO FRANCE. IMPORTANT CONDITIONS. London, November 2G. The “Pall Mall Gazette” states that the British Note to France, assenting to the Franco-German agreement, includes Britain’s approval subject to no clause of the treaty being contrary to the principles of equal commercial opportunities to all nations; also that the clauses in the AngloFrench declaration of 1904 remain untouched.